Taking refuge in insatiable desire, filled with hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance, they cling to false notions through delusion and proceed with impure resolves.

A detailed portrait of the demonic psychology in motion. They take refuge in kāma — desire — specifically duṣpūra, insatiable desire, the kind that cannot be filled because it grows with feeding. This is the fundamental trap: using desire as a refuge creates an ever-deepening dependency, because desire satisfied becomes desire amplified. The demonic person is characterised by the trio of dambha (hypocrisy), māna (pride), and mada (arrogance) — the three distortions of self-perception that make honest relationship with oneself and others impossible. Through moha (delusion) they cling to asad-grāha — false conceptions, wrong views seized as certainties. And their vows (vrata) are aśuci — impure, oriented not toward the good but toward the self's aggrandisement.